Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 197: Forthcoming Confession For Leniency

“No, I mean that my name is Bu Yaolian, “Bu” as in fabric, and “Yaolian” from buyaolian (shameless).”[1] The Everlasting Immortal was now obedient after all that beating, willing to answer every question patiently.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy frowned. “Why do you have such a strange name?”

Lu Yang remarked, Are you sure you should be the one calling someone else’s name strange?

The Everlasting Immortal sighed. “I don’t want this name either, but it’ll take a long time to explain.”

“Take your time.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy conjured a folding stool to sit on, resting her head against her palm as she waited for the Everlasting Immortal’s story.

Yun Zhi and Lu Yang also quietly listened by the side.

The Everlasting Immortal spoke truthfully, “I don’t know where my consciousness came from, nor do I know how I was born. A long time ago, the first trace of my consciousness developed, but it was very faint, barely able to detect my surroundings. It felt like looking at flowers through a fog; everything was obscure.

“I could sense an unknown strength constantly accumulating within me, making me grow stronger bit by bit, but my consciousness remained blurry, and I couldn’t discern the outside world.

“I could also feel many memories being added to my consciousness, but at that time, I didn’t have the ability to think for myself. All I could do was accept those memories passively, unable to organize or process such a massive amount of information.

“As my consciousness gradually grew stronger, I began to hear distant voices calling ‘Everlasting Immortal.’ From then on, the term ‘Everlasting Immortal’ registered in my memory. However, I was still unable to process the memories, and I didn’t know what ‘Everlasting Immortal’ meant.

“I don’t know how much time passed. Perhaps it was hundreds of years, or maybe thousands of years. In any case, my consciousness suddenly became clear, just like a drowning person fished out of the water and regaining their senses of the outside world.

“The first thing I heard when my consciousness became distinct was ‘Great Everlasting Immortal (Brazen-Faced) Bu Yaolian, please save your devoted followers and this world.’ From then on, ‘Bu Yaolian’ became my name. I originally had no name. It was only because the creed leader called me ‘Bu Yaolian’ that I received my name.

“After that, I could finally process the vast flood of memories I had, and I understood what they represented.

“In those memories, I saw someone stumble across a secret domain and accidentally enter it. They learned about an immortal called the Everlasting Immortal who protected the human race in ancient times. The Everlasting Immortal possessed the Everlasting Dao Fruit which allowed this immortal to be resurrected. After the person left the secret domain, he founded the Everlasting Creed and attempted to revive the Everlasting Immortal.

“The Everlasting Creed became stronger with increasingly more followers joining. They tried to please the Everlasting Immortal through slaughter and attempted to call out the immortal’s real name in hopes of resurrecting the immortal.

“It was then that I understood that I was the Everlasting Immortal the Everlasting Creed had revived. As long as someone truly believed in me, prayed to me, and worshipped me, I would be able to obtain their memories.

“Since the creed leader prayed to me, I manifested in the world through a statue to fulfill the creed leader’s expectations. Since I possessed his memories, everything the creed leader knew, I knew too. I saw that he was gravely injured and needed a century of rest. As he was my most devout and powerful follower, I decided to heal him.

“After I received my name, I could sense that I wielded a ball of golden light. Associating it with the memories, I deduced that this was the Everlasting Dao Fruit, and I used a portion of its power to treat the creed leader’s injuries.

“However, I don’t know whether I am the real Everlasting Immortal. My earliest memory originated from the first follower from more than ten thousand years ago. I have not a single memory of the ancient era. For instance, when the creed leader asked me who had refined the sky of stars, I couldn’t give an answer, but neither could I say that I didn’t know, so I told him that this matter was not someone at his level could learn about.

“As I wasn’t sure how the followers would react if they knew about my true situation, I had no choice but to pretend that I had been resurrected from the long ancient past. In reality, I have remained in a soul state all this time.

“I knew this couldn’t go on forever, so I told the creed leader that I wanted to take over a body, return to my peak, and save the world.

“The creed leader believed me and gathered all the Qi Training and Foundation Establishment cultivators, organizing this competition. I would then choose the most suitable candidate to take over their body.”

Lu Yang asked, “Then you chose me?”

The Everlasting Immortal nodded helplessly. Exactly! Of all people, why did I have to choose you? My eyesight was poor, and I selected you, which resulted in me suffering from a horrible beating.

Had it been anyone else, my body takeover would have been successful.

The Everlasting Immortal elucidated a few more matters and clarified some questions, such as why he lacked knowledge of ancient techniques, why he needed to take over a body, and why he was named Bu Yaolian.

However, there were still some questions that even he couldn’t explain. Who exactly was he? Where did he come from? How did the Everlasting Dao Fruit appear?

Lu Yang looked at Yun Zhi and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy expectantly. Now is the time for the experienced and knowledgeable seniors to step in.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy furrowed her brow slightly, looking like she was pondering something, though she didn’t seem reliable.

This whole time, Yun Zhi had been silently listening to the Everlasting Immortal’s tale, trying to discern whether his experiences were true or fabricated. She concluded that the general outline of the story should be true.

Noticing Lu Yang’s gaze, she could tell that her junior brother was brimming with questions which answers he hoped to find from her. “The grand elder of the Heaven Strategy Sect, the Dao Amplification Savant, had posited a hypothesis, saying that there is no Everlasting Immortal or Everlasting Dao Fruit in this world and that the Everlasting Creed is creating an immortal.”

Lu Yang nodded secretly. An old senior is indeed very reliable.

Hearing Yun Zhi’s words, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s head snapped up right away. Which nook did this Dao Amplification Savant come out from? He dares question the existence of my Dao Fruit? Does he not know how much effort I had expended to produce this Dao Fruit?! Even the Heaven Mandate Immortal and the other three envied me so much!

Lu Yang suggested that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy listen to Yun Zhi first and only settle the score with the Dao Amplification Savant later.

Yun Zhi continued, “Where do souls come from? And where do they return to? These are hard questions that remain unsolved in the cultivation world to this day. The Dao Amplification Savant believes that the human consciousness is a form of power. As long as such consciousness is sufficiently strong and abundant, it is possible for a soul to materialize.

“Of course, that’s only a hypothesis. It can’t explicate how the first soul came into being. However, your case aligns with this theory.

“Since the founding of the Everlasting Creed, it has been 14,000 years. Throughout these years, at least a million followers have prayed to a non-existent Everlasting Immortal. With such a long passage of time and an overwhelming amount of consciousness, it’s completely possible to create a soul—and that is you, Everlasting Immortal.

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“However, for you to emerge, there might be an additional factor required—killing.

“The power you just used, have you ever thought about where those devil energy filled with resentment came from?

“Humans stand at the pinnacle of all beings and are the favored child of heaven and earth, born with innate ‘spiritual nature.’ What diabolic cultivators do is strip away this ‘spiritual nature’ from humans through slaughter, transforming it into their own power.

“Your followers, in their attempts to please you, engaged in ceaseless slaughter, creating boundless karmic debts. The power derived from these killings then became your power—the power of a Transcendent Tribulation cultivator.”

1. Shameless is “buyaolian” in Chinese. Bu Yaolian’s name is pronounced exactly the same way, including the tones. Another interesting thing is that “bu” acts as a negative prefix here, and “yaolian” means to want face, while “buyaolian” means not wanting face or shameless. ☜